Engineering thermodynamics

This book reviews the history and evolution of district heating networks, with a focus on current and future issues of the district heating sector.

This engineering guide provides a methodology to define and quantify the fire development andensuing conditions within the room of fire origin from the fire's incipient stage through its fulldevelopment.

The book provides basic and recent research insights concerning the small scale modeling and simulation of turbulent multi-phase flows.

This monograph is focused mostly on the exposition of analytical methods for the solution of problems of strong phase change.

This textbook presents the fundamental concepts and theories in thermal physics and elementary statistical mechanics in a very simple, systematic and comprehensive way.

This second edition updates and expands on the class-tested first edition text, augmenting discussion of dynamic strain aging and austenitic stainless steels and adding a section on analysis of nickel-base superalloys that shows how the mechanical threshold stress (MTS) model, an internal state variable constitutive formulation, can be used to de-convolute synergistic effects.

This book presents different numerical modeling and nature-inspired optimization methods in advanced manufacturing processes for understanding the process characteristics.

This textbook provides a general overview of porous media flow, and introduces various theoretical tools to characterize and predict the flow.

This book aims at providing a computational framework of radiative heat transfer in participating media.

This book offers a unique treatment of building insulating products and the integration of these products with building components.

This book explore how exergy analysis can be an important tool for assessing the sustainability of buildings.

The book covers the classical areas of technical thermodynamics: The first part deals with the basic equations for energy conversion and idealized fluids.

This book presents step-by-step description of the use of Lie group analysis to find symmetry forms and similarity solutions for single- and two-phase laminar and turbulent flows of nanofluids.

This book discusses analytic and asymptotic methods relevant to radiative transfer in dilute media, such as stellar and planetary atmospheres.

This book presents the results of scientific research performed over the past two decades by the authors.

Concise, detailed, and transparently structured, this upper-level undergraduate textbook is an excellent resource for a one-semester course on thermodynamics for students majoring in physics, chemistry, or materials science.

This unique book is at the nexus of modern software programming practices and electrochemical process engineering.

This text provides a clear understanding of the fundamental principles of thermal and fluid sciences in a concise manner in a rigorous yet easy to follow language and presentation.

This book covers historical aspects and future directions of mechanical and industrial engineering.

In this book, the author focuses on the physics behind dew, breaths figures, and dropwise condensation phenomena to introduce scientists, engineers and students to the many original processes involved in condensation.

The book contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries.

This book provides the foundations of analytical thermodynamics for graduate level.

This highly informative and carefully presented book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of thermal engineering.

The book describes the thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and working principle of the Ranque Hilsch Vortex Tube.

The book provides design engineers an elemental understanding of the variables that influence pressure drop and heat transfer in plain and micro-fin tubes to thermal systems using liquid single-phase flow in different industrial applications.

Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging, Inverse Problem Methodologies and Mechanics of Additive & Advanced Manufactured Materials, and Advancement of Optical Methods & Digital Image Correlation, Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 2021 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fourth volume of four from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book offers a complete panorama of the pressurized water reactor industry, beginning from its origin in the USA and the realization of nuclear engines for naval propulsion, to its most recent developments in the field of civil energy production, particularly in France with the 56 reactors of the multinational electric utility company, Electricite de France (EDF).

This book presents a theoretical analysis of the modern methods used for modeling various chemical engineering processes.

This short monograph focuses on the theoretical backgrounds and practical implementations concerning the thermodynamic modeling of multiphase equilibria of complex reservoir fluids using cubic equations of state.

This textbook provides students studying thermodynamics for the first time with an accessible and readable primer on the subject.

This book provides the latest achievements and original research work in physics of combustion processes and application of the methods developed in combustion physics for astrophysical problems of stars burning, supernovae explosions and a confined thermonuclear fusion.

This book discusses how to reduce the impact of dust and heat on photovoltaic systems.

The Surface Wettability Effect on Phase Change collects high level contributions from internationally recognised scientists in the field.

This book systematically presents the consolidated findings of the phenomenon of self-organization observed during the onset of thermoacoustic instability using approaches from dynamical systems and complex systems theory.

This textbook is the result of the enhancement of several courses on non-equilibrium statistics, stochastic processes, stochastic differential equations, anomalous diffusion and disorder.

The nonequilibrium behavior of nanoscopic and biological systems, which are typically strongly fluctuating, is a major focus of current research.

The book provides the theoretical fundamentals on turbulence and a complete overview of turbulence models, from the simplest to the most advanced ones including Direct and Large Eddy Simulation.

This highly informative book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of propulsion.

This book on computational techniques for thermal and fluid-dynamic problems arose from seminars given by the author at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Technology of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.

This book provides recommendations for thermal and structural modelling of spacecraft structures for predicting thermoelastic responses.

This book provides valuable information about fiber-reinforced polymer composites, with emphasis in the process of water absorption by experiments and simulation.

This book reports on topics at the interface between mechanical and chemical engineering, emphasizing design, simulation, and manufacturing.

This book provides a first course on deep learning in computational mechanics.

This textbook on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires.

This book discusses heat transfer in underground energy systems.

The book presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat transfer and energy use in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures, daylighting and electric lighting of buildings, sound transmission in building structures and protection against noise, the occurrence and spread of fires in buildings and the thermal response of cities.

This highly informative and carefully presented book offers a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of incompressible fluid flow.

This textbook is intended for post-graduate students in mechanical and allied engineering disciplines.

The book provides a concise description of the physical processes and mathematical models for explosions and formation of blast waves from explosions.

This book presents various dynamic processes in non-uniform piezoceramic cylindrical and spherical bodies based on numerical methods.